The Uncharted Terrain of our Idiocracy

Trump’s election to the presidency is just one window into this slow motion train wreck, this spectacle that makes political insight and progress impossible. This spectacle began not on election day, but when he announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015. The continuity of plutocracy yawns before the reality show of the presidential campaign of a year and a half. The trend of predatory capitalist capture of both our mainstream media and political system continues. As opposing factions point their fingers of blame at each other, the corporate despots script media talking points for specific target audiences and these despots’ lobbyists script legislation. The process flows methodically, continuously, as bickering over titillation-based media soundbites flood the social media with noise which drowns out any useful knowledge or debate on the issues of our dysfunctional synergy, that is, the idiocracy of infotainment fluff, celebrity trivia, and empty platitidinous smokescreens designed to deter insight into our political system.

The din of bickering factions, political tribes blaming each other, and those feeding on media mind candy, collectively drown out and overpower the relatively minuscule population seeking the knowledge and understanding necessary for the systemic change of this globalized predatory crony capitalist cabal.